P21C:
Mercury: Results from MESSENGER's Low-Altitude Campaign II Posters

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Larry R Nittler, Carnegie Inst Washington, Washington, DC, United States and Paul K Byrne, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Universities Space Research Association, Houston, TX, United States
Primary Conveners:  Paul K Byrne, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Universities Space Research Association, Houston, TX, United States
Co-conveners:  Sean C Solomon, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Paul K Byrne, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Universities Space Research Association, Houston, TX, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
BepiColombo – a Joint ESA/JAXA Mission to Explore Mercury
Johannes Benkhoff, ESTEC, Noordwijk, 2201, Netherlands and Masaki Fujimoto, JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan
 
Improving solar wind modeling at Mercury: Incorporating transient solar phenomena into the WSA-ENLIL model
Ryan M. Dewey1, Daniel N. Baker2, Brian J Anderson3, Mehdi Benna4, Catherine L Johnson5, Haje Korth6, Daniel J Gershman7, George C Ho6, William E McClintock8, Dusan Odstrcil9, Lydia C Philpott5, Jim M Raines10, David Schriver11, James A Slavin10, Sean C Solomon12, Reka M Winslow13 and Thomas Zurbuchen14, (1)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (4)NASA - GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (6)Johns Hopkins Univ/APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)George Mason University Fairfax, Computational and Data Sciences, Fairfax, VA, United States, (10)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (11)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (12)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (13)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (14)Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
 
MESSENGER Disappearing Dayside Magnetosphere Events: Evidence for Severe Dayside Erosion and/or Compression?
Helen R Middleton1, James A Slavin2, Jim M Raines2, Xianzhe Jia3, Brian J Anderson4, M. Leila Mays5 and Thomas Zurbuchen6, (1)ESA/ESAC, Villanueva De La Can, Spain, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (5)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
 
Characteristics of Energetic Electron Events in Mercury’s Magnetosphere at the 10-ms Timescale
Ralph L McNutt Jr1, John O Goldsten1, David J Lawrence1, Richard D Starr2, George C Ho1, Patrick N Peplowski1, Brian J Anderson1, Haje Korth1, Stamatios M Krimigis1,3, Robert E Gold1, Sean C Solomon4,5 and Daniel N. Baker6, (1)Johns Hopkins Univ/APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, (3)Academy of Athens, Office of Space Research and Technology, Athens, Greece, (4)Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States, (5)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (6)University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Mercury’s Tail Current Sheet from MESSENGER Magnetic Field Measurements
Manar Al Asad1,2, Catherine L Johnson1,3, Lydia C Philpott1, Brian J Anderson4, Haje Korth4, James A Slavin5 and Sean C Solomon6,7, (1)University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (2)Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, (3)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (4)The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (5)University of Michigan, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (6)Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States, (7)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States
 
The impact of a hot sodium ion population on the growth of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in Mercury's magnetotail
Peter Gingell, Torbjorn Sundberg and David Burgess, Queen Mary University of London, School of Physics and Astronomy, London, United Kingdom
 
ULF waves at Mercury
Eun-Hwa Kim1, Scott A Boardsen2, Jay Johnson1 and James A Slavin3, (1)Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
 
MESSENGER’s low-altitude plasma observations in Mercury’s northern magnetospheric cusp
Jim M Raines1, Patrick Tracy1, Daniel J Gershman2, Gang Kai Poh1, James A Slavin1, Thomas Zurbuchen1, Haje Korth3, Brian J Anderson3 and Sean C Solomon4,5, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins Univ/APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (4)Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States, (5)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Magnetic Reconnection Controls Impacts of Solar Wind Ions at Mercury's Surface : Investigation By Global Hybrid Simulations
Gerard Marcel Chanteur, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau Cedex, France, Ronan Modolo, UVSQ / LATMOS-IPSL/CNRS-INSU, Guyancourt, France and Francois Leblanc, LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France
 
Regional-Scale Surface Magnetic Fields and Proton Fluxes to Mercury’s Surface from Proton-Reflection Magnetometry
Reka M Winslow1, Catherine L Johnson1, Brian J Anderson2, Daniel J Gershman3, Jim M Raines4, Robert J Lillis5, Haje Korth6, James A Slavin4, Sean C Solomon7 and Thomas Zurbuchen8, (1)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (2)Johns Hopkins Univ, Laurel, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (5)UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (7)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (8)Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
 
Development with MESSENGER Data of a Model of Mercury's Magnetospheric Magnetic Field Confined within the Average Observed Magnetopause
Haje Korth1, Nikolai A Tsyganenko2, Catherine L Johnson3,4, Lydia C Philpott3, Brian J Anderson1, Manar Al Asad3,5, Sean C Solomon6,7 and Ralph L McNutt Jr1, (1)The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)Saint Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, (3)University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (4)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (5)Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, (6)Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States, (7)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Mercury’s Internal Magnetic Field: Results from MESSENGER’s Low-altitude Campaign
Catherine L Johnson1,2, Michael E Purucker3, Lydia C Philpott1, Haje Korth4, Brian J Anderson5, Reka M Winslow6, Manar Al Asad1,7, Joseph B Nicholas8, Nikolai A Tsyganenko9, Steven A. Hauck II10, James W Head III11, Roger J Phillips12 and Sean C Solomon13, (1)University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (2)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (4)The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (5)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (6)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (7)Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, (8)Emergent Space Technologies, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (9)Saint Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, (10)Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States, (11)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, (12)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (13)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Mercury’s Internal Magnetic Field: Results from MESSENGER’s Search for Remanent Crustal Magnetization Associated with Impact Basins
Michael E Purucker1, Catherine L Johnson2, Joseph B Nicholas3, Lydia C Philpott2, Haje Korth4, Brian J Anderson5, James W Head III6, Roger J Phillips7 and Sean C Solomon8, (1)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (2)University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (3)Emergent Space Technologies, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Johns Hopkins Univ/APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (5)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (6)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, (7)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Low-Altitude Neutron Measurements at Mercury: New Insights into Volatile Distributions
Patrick N Peplowski1, David J Lawrence1, John O Goldsten1, Larry R Nittler2 and Sean C Solomon3, (1)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)Carnegie Inst Washington, Washington, DC, United States, (3)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Hydrogen Concentrations near Mercury’s North Pole: New Measurements from MESSENGER’s Low-Altitude Campaign
David J Lawrence, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, Patrick N Peplowski, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, William C Feldman, Planetary Science Institute, Planetary Science Institute, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Sean C Solomon, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Global Volcanism on Mercury at About 3.8 Ga
Paul K Byrne1,2, Lillian Rose Ostrach3, Brett Wilcox Denevi4, James W Head III5, Steven A. Hauck II6, Scott L Murchie4 and Sean C Solomon1,7, (1)Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Universities Space Research Association, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (5)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, (6)Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States, (7)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Spectro-Morphologic Analysis of Pyroclastic Deposits on Mercury
Alain Doressoundiram1, Sebastien Besse2 and Willis Hersérant1, (1)Paris Observatory, Paris, France, (2)European Space Research and Technology Centre, Noordwijk, Netherlands
 
TIR Spectroscopy: Looking for Igneous Rocks on the Surface of Mercury.
Sabrina Ferrari1, Alessandro Maturilli1, Cristian Carli2, Jorn Helbert1, Mario D'Amore1, Fabrizio Nestola3, Federico Zorzi3 and Harald Hiesinger4, (1)German Aerospace Center DLR Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (2)IAPS-INAF, Roma, Italy, (3)Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, (4)University of Münster, Münster, Germany
 
Unsupervised Classification of Mercury’s Surface Spectral and Chemical Characteristics
Mario D'Amore1, Jorn Helbert1, Sabrina Ferrari2, Alessandro Maturilli1, Larry R Nittler3, Deborah Lorin Domingue4, Faith Vilas4, Shoshana Z Weider5, Richard D Starr6, Ellen J Crapster-Pregont7, Denton S Ebel8 and Sean C Solomon9, (1)German Aerospace Center DLR Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (2)DLR, Berlin, Germany, (3)Carnegie Inst Washington, Washington, DC, United States, (4)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (5)Carnegie Institution, Washington, DC, United States, (6)Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, (7)Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, (8)American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, United States, (9)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
 
A Map of Kilometer-Scale Topographic Roughness of Mercury
Mikhail A Kreslavsky1,2, James W Head III3, Alexander A Kokhanov2, Gregory A Neumann4, David E Smith5, Maria T Zuber5 and Natalia A Kozlova2, (1)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography (MIIGAiK), Moscow, Russia, (3)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
Mercury’s Low-Degree Geoid and Topography from Insolation-Driven Elastic Deformation
Nicola Tosi1,2, Ondrej Cadek3, Sebastiano Padovan4,5 and Mark A Wieczorek4, (1)Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (2)German Aerospace Center DLR Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (3)Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, (4)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, (5)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Thickness of Mercury’s crust from MESSENGER gravity and altimetry data
Sebastiano Padovan1,2, Mark A Wieczorek2, Jean-Luc Margot1, Nicola Tosi3,4 and Sean C Solomon5,6, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, (3)Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (4)German Aerospace Center DLR Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (5)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (6)Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States
 
Surface Strains Associated with the Evolution of Mercury’s Domical Swells
Peter B. James, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Paul K Byrne, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Universities Space Research Association, Houston, TX, United States, Sean C Solomon, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Maria T Zuber, Massachusetts Inst Tech, Cambridge, MA, United States and Roger J Phillips, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Mercury’s global fabric of thrust faults
Christian Klimczak1,2, Paul K Byrne1,3 and Sean C Solomon1,4, (1)Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States, (2)University of Georgia, Department of Geology, Athens, GA, United States, (3)Universities Space Research Association, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States, (4)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Locations of Major Thrust Faults on Mercury Point to a Formation Mechanism Associated with Crustal Thickening
Michelle M Selvans, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States, Thomas R Watters, Smithsonian Inst, Washington, DC, United States, Peter B. James, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Roger J Phillips, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States and Sean C Solomon, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Small Fault Scarps on Mercury Detected in Low-Altitude MESSENGER Images
Thomas R Watters1, Sean C Solomon2,3, Katie E. Daud1, Maria E Banks1, Michelle M Selvans1, Mark Southwick Robinson4, Scott L Murchie5, Nancy L Chabot5, Brett Wilcox Denevi5, Carolyn M Ernst5, Clark R Chapman6, Caleb Fassett7, Christian Klimczak3,8, Paul K Byrne3,9 and David T Blewett5, (1)Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum, Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States, (4)Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, (5)The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (6)Southwest Research Institute, Planetary Science Directorate, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)Mount Holyoke College, Department of Astronomy, South Hadley, MA, United States, (8)University of Georgia, Department of Geology, Athens, GA, United States, (9)Lunar and Planetary Institute, Universities Space Research Association, Houston, TX, United States
 
Caloris Basin, Mercury: An Analysis of Cross-Cutting Tectonic Structures
Alister Cunje, University of Toronto, Earth Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada and Rebecca R Ghent, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
 
Constraints on Mercury’s Core-Mantle Boundary Region
Steven A. Hauck II1, Nancy L Chabot2, Peng Sun1, Zhicheng Jing1, Catherine L Johnson3,4, Jean-Luc Margot5, Sebastiano Padovan5, Stanton J Peale6, Roger J Phillips7 and Sean C Solomon8, (1)Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States, (2)Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD, United States, (3)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (4)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (5)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (6)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (7)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States
 
How is Mercury's dynamo powered?
Grace Alexandra Cox1, Brent G Delbridge2, Jessica C E Irving3, Hiroaki Matsui4, William F McDonough5, Ian Rose2, Anat Shahar6 and Sean M Wahl2, (1)University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (4)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (5)Univ Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (6)Carnegie Institution of Washington, Geophysical Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
 
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